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On 31 March 2015, the web site Stuppid published an article reporting that two people were arrested in Jacksonville, Florida, for selling golden tickets that guaranteed the holders entrance to heaven upon their demise: Many readers shared the above-referenced story via social media, apparently believing that two people named Tito and Amanda Watts were actually arrested for perpetrating this form of scam. The report, however, was just another fabricated clickbait tale from a fake news site. Stuppid.com's disclaimer advises readers that the site publishes the stupidest, craziest stuff we can find, and the stuff they find is typically made up by them. Popular past hoaxes from Stuppid include reports of a Nazi couple accidentally receiving sperm from a black donor, a 14-year-old girl's giving birth to Jesus, and a toddler's being thrown from a roller coaster. The photograph of Tito Watts that accompanied the original article was an unrelated 2011 image taken from a collection of bizarre police mugshots Later versions of this hoax changed the protagonists from a Florida couple to a Zimbabwe pastor.
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